The outfits are from Margaret Atwood's 1985 feminist novel that was adapted into a series earlier this year for Hulu. The novel takes place in a near-future dystopia where women have been stripped of all their rights. "Handmaids," which the women in Texas were dressed as, are designated breeders forced to bear children.

In Columbus Tuesday the women were protesting a bill that would ban a widely-used surgical abortion procedure, effectively banning most abortions after 13 weeks gestation.